[SUCCESS] Ventura on MSI PRO H510M-B

[TorAllex]

MSI PRO H510M-B
i5-10400F
Radeon RX 570 GAMING 8G
2x 8Gb DDR4 2667Мhz
NETAC NT01NV5000N-500-E4X
BT USB dongle 0x0a12 (Cambridge Silicon Radio Ltd.)
PS - DeepCool PF500
Case - Powermac G4

System definition iMac 18,3
Successfully updated from Big Sur. Everything is working.
Sound, PM (sleep mode), Apple ID, App Store, iMessage, FaceTime all good.

Geekbench:
Single Core - 1441
Multi Core - 6335
GPU - OpenCL 41306, Metal 53316

 

[Cosmix]

MSI PRO H510M-B
i5-10400F
Radeon RX 570 GAMING 8G
2x 8Gb DDR4 2667Мhz
NETAC NT01NV5000N-500-E4X
BT USB dongle 0x0a12 (Cambridge Silicon Radio Ltd.)
PS - DeepCool PF500
Case - Powermac G4
View attachment 580710

System definition iMac 18,3
Successfully updated from Big Sur. Everything is working.
Sound, PM (sleep mode), Apple ID, App Store, iMessage, FaceTime all good.
I paired it with a Logitech C270 Webcam to get the FaceTime & Siri activated.

Geekbench:
Single Core - 1441
Multi Core - 6335
GPU - OpenCL 41306, Metal 53316

Hello,
Nice work !

Here are some thoughts ...

1) On its site, related to PRO H510M-B, MSI states :

2) Your CPU is i5-10400F ( 10th gen) but does NOT have iGPU.

3) your dGPU is Radeon RX 570 GAMING 8G

So, your system could be seen as "Comet Lake iMac20,1 minus iGPU" rather than "Kaby Lake iMac18,3".

May be you can try some other SMBIOSes and see how it feels ( create a bootable USB and test )

Example : iMacPro1,1 or MacPro7,1 (both use only dGPU )

Any other thoughts ?

Cheers

 

[TorAllex]

May be you can try some other SMBIOSes and see how it feels

Hmmmm... I need some reasons for do it. What can be improved when system definition changed?

 

[Cosmix]

Hmmmm... I need some reasons for do it. What can be improved when system definition changed?

We all know a thing : if it is working and like it, do not change ...

But SMBIOS iMac18,3 will limit you to Ventura ( that's a good think if you do not want to be bothered with ...
Sonoma updates ).

A SMBIOS iMac20,1 is more appropriate to your hardware (still you have no iGPU), but (in the near future) it will allow you to go Sonoma way ...

If you want/need to test/use Sonoma you will need a change ...

But the main point is not to change (a well working system), but to test, to be prepared for Sonoma and possibly macOS 15.

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